No, I just don't know what name I should try to assimilate into truly being "mine" right now. I thought I was going to go with "Ennis" and have asked a few people to call me that, but now I'm not sure if it's the best decision or if I should just try to use a variation of my birth name. The third option is trying to find another name entirely, but 1) that's hard and 2) I'd feel like a douche asking people who were only just acclimatising to "Ennis" to use yet another name. So in the meantime, as I put of making any kind of decision, I'm just sort of stuck with not really having a name.

Picking a name is hard enough when it's for newborn offspring, never mind when you're choosing something for yourself and are trying to encapsulate something of who you are and how you want other people to relate to you in this one word. So I'm sure people will understand if you don't stick with your first choice. You can always have "Ennis" as a middle name, it means there's a little more continuity for people and doesn't sound weird if they call you it by accident.

That's... a surprisingly good idea, since my current middle name does indeed begin with E. So if I used the "male" version of my birth name, my initials wouldn't change. Hmmm. Definitely gonna consider this.

The Flynn Effect is the documented, gradual increase in IQ scores over the 20th century. It is so pronounced that our grandparents, if tested with today's standards back then, would have scored about a 70 and we would have scored about 130 on theirs. The average is 100 (always 100, it's fixed as the average of the test-taking population at the time), and an IQ of 70 is right on the verge of mental retardation.

But it's obviously to anybody that our grandparents usually aren't just teetering on the cusp of Special Ed. So what's been going on?

James Flynn recently gave this short TED talk to share some insights from his ongoing research into the phenomenon that bears his name, putting much of it into perspective and revealing some important differences between the way people think today versus the way people thought 100 years ago.

My forecast: "So wow, much coat, such amaze."
Translation: Sunny and 40 degrees._________________"Worse comes to worst, my people come first, but my tribe lives on every country on earth. Iíll do anything to protect them from hurt, the human race is what I serve." - Baba Brinkman

That dog understands weather._________________"Worse comes to worst, my people come first, but my tribe lives on every country on earth. Iíll do anything to protect them from hurt, the human race is what I serve." - Baba Brinkman

I needed a nap after just reading the title._________________"Worse comes to worst, my people come first, but my tribe lives on every country on earth. Iíll do anything to protect them from hurt, the human race is what I serve." - Baba Brinkman